Eniac

ENIAC

THE FIRST LARGE - SCALE, GENERAL - PURPOSE
ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTER. ENIAC (ELECTRONIC
NUMERICAL INTEGRATOR AND COMPUTER) WAS
DELIVERED TO THE US ARMY'S BALLISTIC RESEARCH
LABORATORY (BRL), ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND,
IN 1947. BUILT BY THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
UNDER AN ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS CONTRACT WITH
TECHNICAL SUPERVISION BY BRL. ENIAC CALCULATED
ARTILLERY FIRING TABLES AND PERFORMED COMPUTA-
TIONS ON SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS UNTIL DECOMMISSIONED
IN 1955.

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